Tobacco-pipe



(No Model.)

A. & 0. .TAPPE.

TOBACCO PIP Patented Dec. 1 1885 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

NITED warns PATE T AUGUST TAPPE AND CHARLES TAPPE, OF BLOOMINGTON,ILLINOIS.

TOBACCO PlPE.

SFEC'IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,569, datedDecember 1, 1885.

Application filed June 30, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, AUGUST TAIPE and CHARLES TAPPE, of Bloomington, inthe county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Tobacco-Pipes and CigarHolders, of which thefollowing a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

This invention relates to the novel construction and peculiararrangement of the several parts composing a pipe for smoking tobaccoand other substances, so as to impede the passage of the smoke throughit, to collect and hold the nicotine, and to cool, purify, and renderthe smoke more agreeable and less injurious.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a central longitudinal section of a tobacco-pipehaving our improvements applied thereto; Fig. 2, a crosssection throughline 00 a: of Fig. 1.

Fig. lin the accompanying drawings represents a central longitudinalsection of a pipe, consisting of a stem of the usual curved form, a cap,B, body A, intermediate lower section, D, and bowl E. V

Vithin the body A are arranged the several devices through which thesmoke from the bowl is to pass to be purified of the nicotine and cooledbefore reaching the mouth. To the lower end of this body A, and betweenit and the bowl E,'is placed an intermediate detachable section, D,secured to the lower end of the central section, A, by a screw-thread,b,and attached to the bowl E by a tapered neck and screw-thread, d, whichneck terminates at a small draft-recess, 6, into which the smoke fromthe bowl first passes. The cap B closes the upper end of the centralsection,A, and to which a stem or mouth-piece of the usual curved formis secured by means of a screw-thread thereon in the usual manner. Thismouthpiece extends through the cap B and projects downward centrally ashort distance into the upper end of the body A. Secured centrally tothis intermediate lower section, D, is a small tube, F, which extendsupward and Serial No. 136,415. (No model.)

terminates within ashort distance of the upper closed end of a largerreturn-tube, H, leaving an enlarged recess therein, as represented 'inFig. 1. To this central tube,F,are fitted two diaphragms, G G, havingperforations 9, through which the smoke is to pass from the tube F.Between these perforated diaphragins G G,and to the interior surface ofthe return tube H, is fitted a spiral, I, to retard the smoke throughand around it in its course between the diaphragms G G. The return-tubeH, with its spiral I, is supported by means of the diaphragms G Gcentrally and about midway within the body A. By placing this returntubeH midway in the body A the spaces or recesses between the upper andlower ends thereof are formed as shown in Fig. 1, and this return-tube Hbeing somewhatsmaller in diameter than the interior diameter of the bodyA, a narrow annular passage-way, h, is formed between them to connectthe upper and lower spaces or recesses, as represented. By thusconstructing a pipe for smoking tobacco in sections economy of materialand facility of assembling the several parts are attained. The severalpieces composing this pipe having been properly fitted,thcy areassembled as follows: The return-tube H is first mounted upon thesmaller tube F, and supported thereon by the diaphragms G G. The tube Fis then screwed into the lower section, D, and section D screwed intothe bowl E. The body A is then placed over the return tube H and screwedto section D at Z. The cap l3 is secured to the upper end of the body A,and the stem or mouth-piece screwed to the cap B, thus con1- pleting thepipe,as represented in Fig. 1, in a merchantable condition. The courseof the smoke through the various channels in this pipe may be describedas follows: From the bowl E the smoke enters,first,the draft-recess c,-thence upward through the small tube F; thence drawn downward throughthe perforationsgin the upper diaphragm, G; thence over and through thespiral I, and through the lower diaphragm, G, entering and expandinginto the space or enlarged recess below the tube H in the intermediatesection, D; thence upward in a thin annular column between the tube Hand interior surface of the body A, to

enter and again expand in the upper space or recess in the body A abovethe tube H, and thence through the stem into the month. By the time thesmoke shall have traversed these various channels from the bowl E to thestem or mouthpiece it is materially cooled, and the nicotine willprecipitate and become a deposit in the lower space or recess in sectionD,from which it can be readily removed at pleasure.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a

pipe for smoking tobacco and other substances, constructed and arrangedsubstantially as described, consisting of a bowl, E, and stem ormouthpiece, body A, intermediate detachable section, D, tube F, andreturn-tube H, having a spiral, I, therein inclosed between twoperforated diaphragms, as set forth.

AUGUST TAPPE. CHARLES TAPPE.

W itnesses:

. ISAAC MOBEAU,

WVILLIAM A. FIsoHBEcK.

